Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen.
By: Ibsen, Henrik
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Publisher: Mincola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, c1997Edition: Dover thrift editions.Description: iv, 60 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0486298523 (pbk.); 9780486298528 (pbk.).Uniform titles: Gengangere Subject(s): Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Translations into English | Norwegian drama -- Translations into EnglishDDC classification: 839.8226 Summary: The sins of the past are at the heart of the play, whose haunted heroine, Mrs Helen Alving, has accepted her pastor's counsel and endured her husband's many infidelities in silence. Ten years after Alving's death, she is to dedicate an orphanage in his memory. Her son Oswald, kept innocent of his father's profligacy, returns home for the dedication. Oswald's attraction to the housemaid - in reality, his half-sister - conjures up the ghost of his parents' unhappy marriage. The disastrous romance, along with Oswald's increasing symptoms of the venereal disease inherited from his father, force Mrs Alving to confront her own "ghosts."
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The sins of the past are at the heart of the play, whose haunted heroine, Mrs Helen Alving, has accepted her pastor's counsel and endured her husband's many infidelities in silence. Ten years after Alving's death, she is to dedicate an orphanage in his memory. Her son Oswald, kept innocent of his father's profligacy, returns home for the dedication. Oswald's attraction to the housemaid - in reality, his half-sister - conjures up the ghost of his parents' unhappy marriage. The disastrous romance, along with Oswald's increasing symptoms of the venereal disease inherited from his father, force Mrs Alving to confront her own "ghosts."
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